The Study Of Variants In Wang Wei’s Poetry

The study of Wang Wei’s poetry in academia focuses on sorting and the versionstudy on his works, and the research of his life, thought etc. In addition, as arepresentative of the landscape and pastoral poetry, Wang Wei often appear in thecomprehensive study of the Tang Dynasty poetry, such as the study of genre, poeticstyle. However, there are a lot of variants in Wang Wei’s existing more than300poems. About this still lack of concern. The related research is not systematic andcomplete. The variant has its unique value. It can provide evidence in languagechange, social values, aesthetic changes, literary reception and so on, and can reflectthe characteristics of the times. So it is necessary to sort the variants in Wang Wei’spoetry.These variants can be divided into two parts: one is the writing errors due todocument flow or version carve; two is another way of reading in he dual influence oflanguage change and the literature acceptance. In the classification, they can bedivided into error type and all meaningful type. In order to explore the value, unless itcan not explain at all, generally will not be identified as the error, so the secondoccupy a large proportion. The reason can be explored from two different aspects of"language and words" and "literature and culture". The reason of language and wordscan be divided into three main parts: form, pronunciation and meaning. Whichcontains the glyph variants, the differentiated words, the borrowed words and thevariants of binding word etc. Literary and cultural reasons can be analyzed from threeaspects: the ancient poetry uncertainty of proposition; the reader’s differentunderstanding to some content in poetry; poetry allusions, taboo, Buddhism, Taoismand terminology, the geographical term, official and other sides of the proprietaryvocabulary. Accordingly, from three levels of the grasp of poetry, poetry appreciation,poetry acceptance process, the value of Wang Wei’s poetry variants will be explored.In general, the study of variants in Wang Wei’s poetry is just a section of theTang Dynasty poetry. The emergence of variants is the objective result of languagechange, and also a subjective appreciation of literature and literary acceptance outside.Similarities and differences between the variants is not only part of the text, but alsocovers many aspects of social life. This phenomenon is due to the universality ofWang Wei’s poetry to describe the object and a unique performance of literaturecommunication and the evolution process of the variants. Through the study, thesubjective and objective reasons of variants in Wang Wei’s poetry are preliminaryseparated, make future research more focused and clear. Expanding the research angleof poetry, people can understand the poetry ontology from more than one side, andthen find another beauty of poetry in appreciation. At the same time, with the help ofWang Wei poetry variants, there is an extra clue to understand the Tang Dynastysocial concept, cultural attitude and acceptance of literature. Researchers can take thisas a breakthrough point, exploring literary appreciation and acceptance of socialmotivation behind.